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Jill Dever
American statistician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jill A. Dever is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology who works as a senior researcher and senior director in the division for statistical & data sciences at RTI International.[1]
Education
Dever is a graduate of the University of Louisville.[1] Majoring in mathematics there, she was encouraged by a faculty member, Steven Seif, to continue in statistics.[2] She earned a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,[1][2] and completed her Ph.D. in survey methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park.[1] Her 2008 dissertation, Sampling Weight Calibration with Estimated Control Totals, was supervised by Richard Valliant.[3]
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Book
With Richard Valliant and Frauke Kreuter, Dever is a co-author of the book Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples (Springer, Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013; 2nd ed., 2018).[4]
Recognition
In 2015 Dever was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5]
References
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